Game-board



(No Model.)

0. E. SWANEY.

- GAME BOARD.

. No. 456,171, Patented July 21,-1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. SWANEY, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,171, dated July 21,1891. Application filed February 18, 1891- Serial No. 381,989. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. SWANEY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county ofCamden and State of New J ersey,have invented a new and usefulGame-Board, of which the following is a specification.

On reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, making part of thisspecification, Figure 1 is a top and perspective view. Fig. 2 is adiagonal and vertical section through the line Ct '19, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa reduced plan view of the containing-box, grooved inclines, andball-pockets; and Fig; 4: is a sectional perspective view showing theintersecting parts of the grooved inclines.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

A is a rectangular box of suitable depth, and preferably hinged at c forfolding on its edges to form a closed packing-receptacle for thecomponent parts of the game when taken apart.

B are ball-pockets made by setting off the corners of the box bydividing-strips d.

O O are upwardly and inwardly inclined balLrunners or grooved inclinesof any number, which cross and intersect and have top grooves e, asshown at Figs. 2 and 4, where the slot f of 0 takes into the slot g ofO. The

ball-grooves 6 stop a short distance from the intersection to form acentral opening D, which can be either open or occupied by a ball-pocketB, which is fixed by pins h, extending from it into the inclines. E Eare vertical ring-targets at the inner ends of the inclines C O.

The game is played with any number of balls 1', one of which, beingplaced in the grooved incline O and driven by a cue with.

sufficient force, is impelled through the line of ring-targets E E andjumping the central opening D into the groove of the opposite end of thesame incline'rolls intothe pocket B of thatend. "When a ball collideswith a ringtarget, it drops into the opening, D or the pocket B whenused.

The grooved inclines C C may be of any form and intersection, so thatthey incline upwardly to the intersection, and the respective ends orlengths of each are in the same vertical plane. As shown,they arelocated diagonally of the box, which direction can be provided at'theirinner ends with upright and opposing targets having central openings topermit of a ball passing through them,for the purpose shown anddescribed.

2. In a game-board; the combination of grooved inclines which extenddownward and outward from a central opening, the opposite inclines lyingin the same vertical plane and provided at their inner ends with uprightand opposing targets having central openings to permit of a ball passingthrough them, and ball-pockets at the outer ends of the inclines, forthe purpose shown and described.

3. In a game-board, the combination of a hinged closing-receptacle,grooved inclines which extend downward and outward from a centralopening, upright and opposing targets having' central openings to permitof a ball passing through them, andball-pockets at the outer ends of theinclines, for the purpose shown and described.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. SWANEY.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS D. PASTORIUS, MARTIN V. BERGEN.

